in his state of the union address president obama said that our enemies are seeking the ability to sabotage her power grid are financial institutions are air traffic control systems could we have representatives this week from all three of those industries. gentleman i want to start with an opening question for each of you. what are some of the attacks that have happened on your industry and how are you preventing them? we will begin with tom kuhn of the edison electric institute which represents several electric companies in united states. >> guest: thank you peter. so far, we have seen every day attacks from various sources but so far the major attacks we have had have been on customer information systems or things of that nature. they haven't been the attacks they keep me up at night which are the ones that would do some some damage to her critical in the structure. >> host: how do you work to prevent them? >> guest: how do we work to prevent those? we have technologies, cybertechnologies, prevention technologies. we spend a lot of time looking at detection technologies but again if we g